EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein") to Dr. John Somerville, Princeton, N.J., 18 May 1950. 1 page, 4to, on Einstein's personal embossed stationery. In very fine condition. AMERICA'S "HYSTERICAL FEAR" OF COMMUNISM. Only a month after Senator Joseph McCarthy made his dramatic announcement that he had a list of over 200 Communists in the U.S. State Department and a month before the outbeak of the Korean War, Einstein comments pointedly on anti-Communist hysteria which then gripped his adopted country: "I have read more than half of your book 'The Philosophy of Peace' which you so kindly sent me, with great satisfaction. It is not only a careful analysis of the relevant moral and historic factors but also a sign of remarkable independence and courage. If your book should find the attention in this country it merits it would counteract effectively the present state of hysterical fear and would lead to a more sane and constructive political attitude." The hysteria Einstein noted prevailed well into Eisenhower's first term, although McCarthy was disgraced and censured by the Senate in 1954.
EINSTEIN, Albert. Typed letter signed ("A. Einstein") to Dr. John Somerville, Princeton, N.J., 18 May 1950. 1 page, 4to, on Einstein's personal embossed stationery. In very fine condition. AMERICA'S "HYSTERICAL FEAR" OF COMMUNISM. Only a month after Senator Joseph McCarthy made his dramatic announcement that he had a list of over 200 Communists in the U.S. State Department and a month before the outbeak of the Korean War, Einstein comments pointedly on anti-Communist hysteria which then gripped his adopted country: "I have read more than half of your book 'The Philosophy of Peace' which you so kindly sent me, with great satisfaction. It is not only a careful analysis of the relevant moral and historic factors but also a sign of remarkable independence and courage. If your book should find the attention in this country it merits it would counteract effectively the present state of hysterical fear and would lead to a more sane and constructive political attitude." The hysteria Einstein noted prevailed well into Eisenhower's first term, although McCarthy was disgraced and censured by the Senate in 1954.
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